Well, you believe that they believe that, but that's not the same thing is it? I mean, you presumably believe yourself to be making sense, yet you're not. Why couldn't you be just as wrong about atheists?
Nonsense. It COULD be proved, quite easily. All that would be needed is for God (or other assistant Designer) to decide to clue us in with a major announcement (y'know, with parting of the skies and all that) on Monday morning. That'd convince me, and you too, I'd wager.
Now of course that has never happened, but there's nothing to prevent it. I.e., the question is certainly decidable, given enough evidence.
As for being disproved, nothing can be utterly disproved. The worst you can say of anything is that there is no evidence in favor of its ever having existed--yet.
But the fact that ID has never been proved (or for that matter even mildly supported) by a shred of actual evidence, is strongly suggestive of there being no such thing.
The same could be said of the Tooth Fairy, for similar reasons, and rightly so. You could assert that the T.F. can't be disproven, but it's sophistry to claim that belief vs. non-belief in the T.F. deserve equal intellectual respect.
=Gary
Sorry, but you're flat wrong. You say "in fact" but you've never measured it.
You see, at a given temperature and pressure, there are a given number of gas molecules per unit volume. That's counting nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor, everything.
Nk = PV/T
But never mind theory. The fact is, humid air is substantially less dense than dry air in real life. (There's a lot of truth in what actually happens.)
The measurement confirms the theory nicely. For further proof, planes need more runway (higher speed) to take off in high high humidity, other factors being equal. Go ask a pilot, a high-school physics or chem teacher, or a bright student.
There is no "n" in the word "restaurateur". Did the newspaper really make that stupid error? I seriously doubt that the Quebec Restaurateurs Association would have.
It sounds like out of a hundred replies, three people actually listened to the broadcast.
The announcers on NBC clearly stated several times that the entire footprint fireworks segment was a "cinematic" presentation, not live, not real, not journalism, just pretty-pretty eye candy. Mmmm! Sparkly!
But some people never get anything into their heads except through a fracture. Clearly, listening to the broadcast was not enough.
I agree with everything that has been said about how nasty this would be if it were not disclosed as a fake, and I'd be hollering as loud as they are if I had not been listening, and were similarly clueless that it had been disclosed completely.
Then, like them, I would have been caught with my head up something it did not belong.
Well, that would depend solely on where the information was stored, and not at all on what the nature of the information was, be it incriminating or exculpatory to the FBI or to any individual(s).
Apparently they believed it was stored on two computers and removed two computers. Your point being?
But no, "Brilliant" is not something I normally associate with the FBI.
But in this case, the director allowed the FBI to take a public computer in the interest of solving a crime. Big deal.
It seemed reasonable judgment from where I stand.
How do you know why the FBI took the computer?
For all you know (and statistically just as likely) the FBI took the computer to supress information implicating them, or the Bush administration, in some wrongdoing.
This is why judges should be making this sort of decision and not the library director (who is arguably no more qualified than you are to decide; and btw, you ain't).
People have an expectation of privacy in libraries because decades of case law have given them the right to just such an expectation.
I'm not sure how things work in the united states, but it seems like up here in Canada, when they table a bill, it contains only relevant stuff....
Things work differently enough that the verb "to table" has exactly the opposite meaning. In Canada, tabling a bill means bringing it to the table for discussion. In the US, tabling a bill means ending discussion, tossing the bill on the table, and forgetting about it forever.
First of all, I almost NEVER get telemarketing calls on my VZW phone. But even so, in my experience, telemarketers tend not to leave messages.
Their only shot is to bilk you while they have you. I'm sure that leaving messages has such a low return rate that they've realized it isn't even worth having a robot do it.
Besides, if they leave a message, they have to give you a way of calling them back, which means, if you're on the do-not-call list, a way of suing them.
The tunnel dodge doesn't work here. I can get on a train, go under the Hudson, and end up at Penn Station in Manhattan, and have five bars all the way, on VZW.
If you never check your voice mail, and yet leave the service enabled, people can justifiably call you an idiot when they leave you a message and you don't reply.
If you have a voice mail service that you never check, either turn it the hell off (so callers hear only ringing) or set it to announce-only and tell them NOT to leave a message. Better yet, set your outgoing message to tell them how they CAN reach you.
The way you're doing it is really inconsiderate, since it's no trouble for you, but it inconveniences others by wasting their time unnecessarily. Your time is NOT more valuable than theirs.
Umm, do you drive a Hummer, by any chance?
What conspiracy ? Given a choice between shooting down a plane and killing everyone onboard or letting some lunatic ram it into a building, killing everyone onboard anyway and lots of people besides them, which would you choose ?
Dude, that's a pretty scary illogical leap.
The question of what I might choose, or you might choose, in a hypothetical scenario is irrelevant to the matter of what actually happened. Even if I agree arguendo that it could be justified, that is not in any way evidence that that is what took place on 9/11.
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"Atheists believe they are themselves, gods"
Well, you believe that they believe that, but that's not the same thing is it? I mean, you presumably believe yourself to be making sense, yet you're not. Why couldn't you be just as wrong about atheists?
"ID can never be proved or disproved..."
Nonsense.
It COULD be proved, quite easily. All that would be needed is for God (or other assistant Designer) to decide to clue us in with a major announcement (y'know, with parting of the skies and all that) on Monday morning. That'd convince me, and you too, I'd wager.
Now of course that has never happened, but there's nothing to prevent it. I.e., the question is certainly decidable, given enough evidence.
As for being disproved, nothing can be utterly disproved. The worst you can say of anything is that there is no evidence in favor of its ever having existed--yet.
But the fact that ID has never been proved (or for that matter even mildly supported) by a shred of actual evidence, is strongly suggestive of there being no such thing.
The same could be said of the Tooth Fairy, for similar reasons, and rightly so. You could assert that the T.F. can't be disproven, but it's sophistry to claim that belief vs. non-belief in the T.F. deserve equal intellectual respect.
=Gary
Sorry, but you're flat wrong. You say "in fact" but you've never measured it.
You see, at a given temperature and pressure, there are a given number of gas molecules per unit volume. That's counting nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor, everything.
Nk = PV/T
But never mind theory. The fact is, humid air is substantially less dense than dry air in real life. (There's a lot of truth in what actually happens.) The measurement confirms the theory nicely. For further proof, planes need more runway (higher speed) to take off in high high humidity, other factors being equal. Go ask a pilot, a high-school physics or chem teacher, or a bright student.
Actually, "daily" would be written q.d., not q.i.d. which means four times a day. You just gave the patient a 300% overdose.
... does anyone know if the rotation of the earth around the sun mean that we actually rotate 366.25 times per revolution, or 364.25?
Yes, of course someone does.
Quebec Restauranteurs Association
There is no "n" in the word "restaurateur". Did the newspaper really make that stupid error? I seriously doubt that the Quebec Restaurateurs Association would have.
>>But this is only good if your device can be charged by USB
>Correct. Also not useful to prevent tooth decay.
Yeah, how come my toothbrush charger isn't USB?
Does your employer have a charging station for electric cars? Mine doesn't. I doubt that many do.
Does your employer have an electric outlet? Mine does. I doubt that many don't
What an utter NON-story!
It sounds like out of a hundred replies, three people actually listened to the broadcast.
The announcers on NBC clearly stated several times that the entire footprint fireworks segment was a "cinematic" presentation, not live, not real, not journalism, just pretty-pretty eye candy. Mmmm! Sparkly!
But some people never get anything into their heads except through a fracture. Clearly, listening to the broadcast was not enough.
I agree with everything that has been said about how nasty this would be if it were not disclosed as a fake, and I'd be hollering as loud as they are if I had not been listening, and were similarly clueless that it had been disclosed completely.
Then, like them, I would have been caught with my head up something it did not belong.
Yeah, I'd rather not think so either. But reality intrudes.
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Subpeonas? That's sooooooo 20th century.
Well, that would depend solely on where the information was stored, and not at all on what the nature of the information was, be it incriminating or exculpatory to the FBI or to any individual(s).
Apparently they believed it was stored on two computers and removed two computers. Your point being?
But no, "Brilliant" is not something I normally associate with the FBI.
But in this case, the director allowed the FBI to take a public computer in the interest of solving a crime. Big deal.
It seemed reasonable judgment from where I stand.
How do you know why the FBI took the computer?
For all you know (and statistically just as likely) the FBI took the computer to supress information implicating them, or the Bush administration, in some wrongdoing.
This is why judges should be making this sort of decision and not the library director (who is arguably no more qualified than you are to decide; and btw, you ain't).
People have an expectation of privacy in libraries because decades of case law have given them the right to just such an expectation.
I expect that when I pay a merchant in his store (arguably a public place) with a credit card, my credit card number is kept private
Well, you'd lose that bet. Investigators, both private and public, with and without warrants, routinely gain access to your purchase history.
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Orwell was an optimist.
I'm not sure how things work in the united states, but it seems like up here in Canada, when they table a bill, it contains only relevant stuff....
Things work differently enough that the verb "to table" has exactly the opposite meaning. In Canada, tabling a bill means bringing it to the table for discussion. In the US, tabling a bill means ending discussion, tossing the bill on the table, and forgetting about it forever.
What kind of sad, shallow person is inspired by someone of a particular skin color becoming President?
Umm, the kind that elected 43 presidents in a row that 'just happened' to all have a particular skin color? Coincidence? Yeah, prolly.
Deep Throat was surely copyrighted. They might say you can't use that idea legally.
Why not? Woodward and Bernstein did.
What's a 12 year old girl doing in center field?
I dunno; chewing tobacco?
...mmmmm, bacon.
First of all, I almost NEVER get telemarketing calls on my VZW phone. But even so, in my experience, telemarketers tend not to leave messages.
Their only shot is to bilk you while they have you. I'm sure that leaving messages has such a low return rate that they've realized it isn't even worth having a robot do it.
Besides, if they leave a message, they have to give you a way of calling them back, which means, if you're on the do-not-call list, a way of suing them.
Umm that's okay, you don't sound like someone with whom it would be enjoyable to speak.
The tunnel dodge doesn't work here. I can get on a train, go under the Hudson, and end up at Penn Station in Manhattan, and have five bars all the way, on VZW.
If you never check your voice mail, and yet leave the service enabled, people can justifiably call you an idiot when they leave you a message and you don't reply. If you have a voice mail service that you never check, either turn it the hell off (so callers hear only ringing) or set it to announce-only and tell them NOT to leave a message. Better yet, set your outgoing message to tell them how they CAN reach you. The way you're doing it is really inconsiderate, since it's no trouble for you, but it inconveniences others by wasting their time unnecessarily. Your time is NOT more valuable than theirs. Umm, do you drive a Hummer, by any chance?
Dude, that's a pretty scary illogical leap.
The question of what I might choose, or you might choose, in a hypothetical scenario is irrelevant to the matter of what actually happened. Even if I agree arguendo that it could be justified, that is not in any way evidence that that is what took place on 9/11.
Seriously.
Yes, I think it's perfectly fine to ignore a site's policy....
But if they want to have me arrested, then we have a serious problem.
Well, one of you does.
If it is detectable in any way, it's not "dark" anymore!
That's fine. Objective met.
Then they'll just start referring to it as "plaid matter" or whatever.